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QuickTip: Pin PowerShell to the Taskbar

When you are working with PowerShell in your daily work it might be worth considering pinning PowerShell to the taskbar. By doing this you have easy access using either the the mouse of the keyboard hotkeys.

By placing PowerShell in the first location on the taskbar you will have the following hotkeys available:

Description of action

Key Combination

Open new (non-administrative) PowerShell console if not open already, otherwise cycle through open consoles

<WIN> 1

Open new Administrative PowerShell console if not open already, otherwise cycle through open consoles

<CTRL> <SHIFT><WIN> 1

Open new (non-administrative) PowerShell console even if a console is already open

<WIN> <SHIFT> 1

Open the context menu, allows for opening:

PowerShell as Administrator

PowerShell

ISE as Administrator

ISE

<WIN> <ALT> 1

Using the mouse you have the following, similar, options available to you. Similar to the keyboard combinations:

Description of action

Mouse Combination

Open new (non-administrative) PowerShell console if not open already, otherwise cycle through open consoles

Click

Open new (non-administrative) PowerShell console even if a console is already open

<SHIFT> Click

Open new Administrative PowerShell console even if a console is already open

<CTRL> <SHIFT> Click

Open the context menu, allows for opening:

PowerShell as Administrator

PowerShell

ISE as Administrator

ISE

RightClick

Using these key combinations allows you to access PowerShell faster and no mouse-clicking will be required anymore.